Re: Feature request - extended ties

2005-02-21 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
technical exercises for all guitarists worth a lifetime of practice: Dynamic Guitar Technique. Nothing else is close. Free download: http://www.openguitar.com/dynamic.html daveA David Raleigh Arnold dra..at..openguitar.com attachment

Re: Grace notes, ties, optimum notation

2005-02-17 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
miracles. Get it at: http://www.openguitar.com/dynamic.html daveA David Raleigh Arnold dra..at..openguitar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Difference in in output between LP and lilypond-book

2005-02-14 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 13 February 2005 07:40 pm, Paul Scott wrote: David Raleigh Arnold wrote: That's what Pedro Kroger's 'lilypond-snapshot' does. Both lilypond (2.2.6) and lilypond-snapshot (2.4.2) work fine on my debian/testing machine, but unfortunately there is a font problem with lilypond-snapshot

Re: Difference in in output between LP and lilypond-book

2005-02-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
of the instrument consist in Dynamic Guitar Technique. I promise miracles. Get it at: http://www.openguitar.com/dynamic.html daveA David Raleigh Arnold dra..at..openguitar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

Re: New glyph, language.ly (from: notation for pitch bends and drops)

2005-02-09 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
it at: http://www.openguitar.com/dynamic.html daveA David Raleigh Arnold dra..at..openguitar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: New glyph, language.ly (from: notation for pitch bends and drops)

2005-02-09 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 04:21 pm, Benjamin Esham wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 9, 2005, at 11:43 AM, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Is there any objection to my having my own language.ly? [...] I don't like to hack like that without permission, especially

Re: transpose, transposition, and relative

2005-02-07 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 06 February 2005 04:08 pm, Graham Percival wrote: On 5-Feb-05, at 9:40 AM, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: As I've said before, please tell me exactly what section(s) should changed, and exactly what should be changed or added. Table of Contents * GNU LilyPond \u2014

Re: String numbers in circles

2005-02-07 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
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Re: transpose, transposition, and relative

2005-02-05 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
. Get it at: http://www.openguitar.com/dynamic.html daveA David Raleigh Arnold dra..at..openguitar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Who wants better MIDI output? (was: MIDI and repeat)

2005-02-03 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Technique. I promise miracles. Get it at: http://www.openguitar.com/dynamic.html daveA David Raleigh Arnold dra..at..openguitar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond

Re: convert-ly with lily2.4.2

2005-02-03 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
it at: http://www.openguitar.com/dynamic.html daveA David Raleigh Arnold dra..at..openguitar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: transpose, transposition, and relative

2005-02-03 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
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Re: Rest Collision Bug

2005-01-24 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 24 January 2005 07:23 am, Erik Sandberg wrote: On Sunday 23 January 2005 03.16, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: So is your proposed fix, in other words, that shiftOn should apply to colliding rests also? so in your exemple the e4\rest should be shifted a few mm to the right

Re: Advocating Research on Fingering Practice

2005-01-22 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Saturday 22 January 2005 03:05 pm, Erik Sandberg wrote: On Friday 21 January 2005 20.57, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: Quoted w/o permission: [quote][i]Originally posted by donaldsauter[/i] [br]Jan de Kloe's article A House Style for Engraving Guitar Music in the most recent Soundboard

Rest Collision Bug

2005-01-22 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
exercises for guitar which are worthy of the instrument consist in Dynamic Guitar Technique. I promise miracles. Get it at: http://www.openguitar.com/dynamic.html daveA David Raleigh Arnold dra..at..openguitar.com ___ lilypond

Re: chord symbol parentheses

2005-01-21 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
of the instrument consist in Dynamic Guitar Technique. I promise miracles. Get it at: http://www.openguitar.com/dynamic.html daveA David Raleigh Arnold dra..at..openguitar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http

Old Music Fingering Example

2005-01-19 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
for guitar which are worthy of the instrument consist in Dynamic Guitar Technique. I promise miracles. Get it at: http://www.openguitar.com/dynamic.html daveA David Raleigh Arnold dra..at..openguitar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing

Re: LilyPond on Debian

2005-01-18 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
is repackaged. daveA -- The only technical exercises for guitar which are worthy of the instrument consist in Dynamic Guitar Technique. I promise miracles. Get it at: http://www.openguitar.com/dynamic.html daveA David Raleigh Arnold dra..at..openguitar.com

Re: chord symbol parentheses

2005-01-18 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
/dynamic.html daveA David Raleigh Arnold dra..at..openguitar.com ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Comment marks

2005-01-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 13 January 2005 07:15 am, Gordon Gilbert wrote: Is it possible to comment out whole sections of your file? For example in the process of trying something, would it work to comment out a whole section of music or chords, or words like this? %{ a b c d d e f g } Comment marks

Re: Odp: fingering

2005-01-12 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 10:34 pm, Albert Einstein wrote: Do you know something about marking barre ? I know that a vertical bracket is very popular in Germany for marking a barre, but I have never been tempted to adopt it. Extra verticals are a problem when the hspacing is tight. As you

fingering

2005-01-10 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
I just wanted to show what it took to get decent fingering on an introductory grade simple little exercise in two parts. There is a problem getting the first 1-- close to the notehead. The output is at http://www.openguitar.com/html/files/cma0.pdf . Finger numbers should be close to the

Re: Fingering Spacing Bug

2005-01-01 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 31 December 2004 09:14 pm, Erik Sandberg wrote: On Friday 31 December 2004 14.35, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: I've held off upgrading from 2.2.6 to 2.4.2 because I wanted to finish a project. I converted this file from 2.2.6 to 2.4.2 and the bug is still very much present

Hyphens before and after finger numbers

2005-01-01 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Please, how can I get the same numbers with the hyphens as without? I've only been trying to do it for four years or so. I'm not the only one. The hyphens are much nicer than dotted ties or those horrible straight ruled lines between numbers. \version 2.2.6 \include english.ly \paper {

Re: betweensystemspace

2004-12-28 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 02:21 pm, Karl Hammar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I ran lyinclude on A.ly, uncommented the betweensystemspace and betweensystempadding lines, removed the lyrics and found that it was indeed possible to squeeze the staves together. Choirstaves anyway. I still

betweensystemspace

2004-12-20 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
In 2.2.6, I could get the job done by setting minimumVerticalExtent to zeroes and verticalExtent to get what I wanted. No luck so far getting the staves close enough with betweensystemspace. It's academic, because lilypond-book fails whether there's a layont block or not:

example of using slyce

2004-12-19 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
I put a lilypond-book with an example of the slyce.ly source for the notation in it on my site. That trivial little thing saved me from every bit as much hassle as I thoughtit might. If you're interested, take a look at: http://www.openguitar.com/instruction.html daveA

Re: Maybe version should be mandatory

2004-12-17 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 17 December 2004 09:34 am, Michael Kallas wrote: Would it maybe make sense to make \version numbers in the .ly files mandatory? Or at least have some --Wall / --strict feature that fails if it is not set? That way, you would't forget to insert the version and have to learn the hard

Re: Another Lilypond Story

2004-12-16 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 16 December 2004 05:16 pm, Erik Sandberg wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2004 22.10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used Lilypond to write The Legend of the Toad, which will be commercially available mid January in a recording by Roby Lakatos, and for which a demo which can be

sedfilt.py

2004-12-08 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
You have a list of sed command files in your working directory. Its name is cly-sedfilts. Its first line is a path or partial path, and each line following has a file name to which the first line is prefixed. When you invoke: $ sedfilt.py cly ly sedfilt concatenates the sed edits in the

Re: who uses lilypond

2004-12-03 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Mostly for original compositions, but right now I'm doing some 19th century stuff. daveA ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: New slyce.py already

2004-12-03 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Just uploaded a new slyce. It's a bit more fault tolerant than the version of a few days ago. Slyce could be helpful in producing the lilypond-docs, just for example. daveA ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New version of sly

2004-11-30 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Now sly can extract, copy, and process sly-formatted material in lilypond files. The extension tells sly what to do with the file. Get it at my website, http://www.openguitar.com daveA ___ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Slyce.py

2004-11-29 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
When I ran into a problem with lilypond-book, I had just updated a dozen 2.2 files to 2.4, so I wrote this utility to make sure I wouldn't have as much trouble in the future. If you use lilypond-book, you'll love this. Run slyce.py on this file: Head

Lilypond-book and versions of tetex?

2004-11-22 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
FWIW this is my version information for tetex. Hope it helps. daveA scylla:/home/dra# apt-cache showpkg tetex-bin Package: tetex-bin Versions: 2.0.2-23 (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages)

lilypond-book-snapshot

2004-11-19 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
What is ljfour mode? The lilypondfiles are fine, and convert-ly did ok with them. I ran convert-ly on the .lytex file and it changed nothing except the new \version as the first line. I am missing something. daveA Input file: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/data/wb/lily/carcassibook/carcscales$ cat

Re: group music per measure

2004-11-19 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 05:19 pm, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: Nicolas Sceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nicolas Sceaux writes: This is absolutely useless This is absolutely fantastic. (Certain) users have been requesting this for years, it

Re: Web page documentation

2004-11-19 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 12:12 am, J L wrote: Hi, I was just wondering how many people use the web-page version of the LilyPond documentation on Windows? The thing is, on Windows it is more convienient to use the pdf version and could mean that only this bit of the documentation needs

Re: Right way to handle repeats like this?

2004-11-05 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 05 November 2004 11:46, James Moore wrote: What's the right way to designate repeats for a piece that has: Chorus Chorus (written at end of chorus: last X to Coda) Verse 1 Verse 2 (written at end of verse: D.C. al Coda Chorus Coda The chorus and verse repeats seem simple, but

Re: dots astray

2004-10-27 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 06:18 am, Erik Sandberg wrote: On Monday 11 October 2004 10.44, Mats Bengtsson wrote: To those who know this better; the results are the same with 2.2.5 and 2.3.22. What confuses me most is that it doesn't help to add a \voiceFour in the lower voice or a

Re: some missing items?

2004-10-25 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 25 October 2004 07:32 am, Kieren Richard MacMillan wrote: [ Mac OS X 10.3.5 ; Lilypond 2.3.20 via Fink ] Hey, y'all! Just curious -- is it just me, or is Lilypond missing rf (as opposed to rfz) and the articulation mark for a natural harmonic (o)? That's called a flagolet.

Re: Little problem with lilypond (Modified by Maurits Lamers)

2004-10-21 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 21 October 2004 09:18 am, Maurits Lamers wrote: Yes, you're absolutely right. To have the lyrics with the voice on the staff, the appropriate syllable could be printed immediately before or after the note on the same line or space. You could manage that by coding the lyrics as if

Re: lilypond-snapshot Was: 2.3.20 doesn't work :-(

2004-10-18 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Saturday 16 October 2004 03:30 pm, Mats Bengtsson wrote: You don't need the input file to solve Roland's problem. Forgive me, but I'm a bit confused. Is tha idea of lilypond-snapshot to make it simpler to have and use two versions of lilypond on the system? I take it that it works, and I

Re: lilypond-book

2004-10-12 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 11 October 2004 01:48 pm, Erik Sandberg wrote: Citerar Mats Bengtsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Of course, I should have cross-posted already the previous email to bug-lilypond. I just came to think of yet another possible solution, namely to mimic the \verb command in LaTeX and

Re: Suggestions for macro tools to generate .ly files

2004-10-12 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 11 October 2004 08:26 pm, Jack O'Quin wrote: I'm helping a friend write an electric bass method book. In an effort to reach as many players as possible, we decided to print each exercise in both bass clef and tablature. Lilypond and lilypond-book work great for this. After

Re: MIDI and Lyrics

2004-10-05 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 06:24 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote: The lyrics lines are included in the LilyPond MIDI output, but I guess it depends on the MIDI player you use. For example, I tried to run mf2t (http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/mf2t/) on the output from the melody-lyrics.ly

Re: Other versions of lilypond?

2004-09-15 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 03:26 pm, Erik Sandberg wrote: On Tuesday 14 September 2004 18.05, Bruce Calder wrote: Hi, and thanks for this gift of an application! I've been looking for something like it for Linux for a while. I would like to use it to translate ptabtools output. I

Re: Fixed Measure Widths

2004-09-14 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Is there a way to specify a fixed measure width throughout a piece, or more prefereably have all the measures on a line be the same width? Many fake/real books are written out this way, and I would like to be able to duplicate this. You could put 8 8ths or 16 16ths or whatever it takes in

Re: two notes of the same pitch

2004-09-08 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 05:55 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote: I seem to recall a discussion on this topic some year ago on the mailing list. From the top of my head, I don't remember the conclusions, but you may want to search the mailing list archives to see what came up then. /Mats

Re: Fingering position

2004-08-26 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:58 am, Walter Hofmeister wrote: Lilypond 2.2.5 on Mac OS X 10.3.4 I am preparing some guitar instructional material and would like to specify both left hand(numbers) and right hand(letters) fingerings. I would like to have the left hand finger numbers close to

Re: Finale for Linux?

2004-08-26 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:24 pm, Peter B. Steiger wrote: BTW, I'm working on a midi-to-lilypond converter since I can't get midi2ly to work correctly. Unfortunately my grasp of both C and MIDI file format is pretty elementary, and I can only work on it in my spare time which means about

Re: Lyrics and s1

2004-08-16 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 16 August 2004 12:37 am, Peter B. Steiger wrote: In my ongoing quest to make barbershop-style notation as quick and painless as possible, I downloaded 2.3.11 this week and got it running to see how I can adapt satb.ly to my needs. I think I can make this work! Those of you who have

Re: need to move a single rest just a bit to the left

2004-08-12 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 08:12 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Unfortunately, there is no automatic support for this at the moment, but I found a comment in the implementation that this is on the TODO list (in the file lily/rest-collision.cc). Just a reminder that colliding rests *always* are to

Re: another fingering question

2004-08-12 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 05:07 pm, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: You have a syntax error, which is easily remedied. Instead of c-5, you change to c_5 to force the markup below and c^5 to force it above. You never use c_-5. -4 4- and 3-4 are all very useful in fingering, and they have been

default stem direction

2004-08-10 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Is it advisable to leave the stable version now and upgrade? I searched the changelog for \stem and didn't find anything. \header { \version 2.2.5 } \score { \notes { \context Voice = voiceUno{ \relative c' { c4 d8 e f g a b c e, f g a b c d e g, a b % - group has wrong stem direction c

Re: default stem direction

2004-08-10 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 08:53 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote: According to what rule? When I try your example here, the stems point upwards. I tried manually forcing them down and compared which version felt most pleasing to the eye, but I have to say it was a fair play. When the stems are down,

Re: Swing indications in text markup?

2004-08-06 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 06 August 2004 03:43 pm, Benjamin Esham wrote: I am typesetting a piece which has some swing sections. In these sections, two eighth notes should be played as a tripletted quarter note and eighth note. A swing or jazz 8th is far less different from an 8th than a triplet, or even

Re: Band parts - a newbie's view

2004-07-29 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 12:09 pm, Ralph Little wrote: Hi, Unless I'm mistaken, cut-common and common-time are actually different things. Cut-common is the same as 2/2 not 4/4, whereas common-time and 4/4 are the same thing. Cut-common is usually represented with a C with a slash through.

Re: Fingering

2004-07-15 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 01:29 am, Sami Huhtala wrote: Much simpler solution when the need to force a number above/below the staff is only temporary: c^3 forces the fingering-number above the note c-3 finds the 'most natural' place for the number (always[?] above the staff -

Re: midi output osx

2004-06-28 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 27 June 2004 10:05 am, Sean Reed wrote: hi, i'm new to the list and relatively new to lilypond. i am very impressed with and pleased by its flexibility and the great quality of its appearance. i am using mac os 10.3.4 and lilypond 2.2.3. the tempo of the midi output from my files

Re: Making a lilypond-book

2004-06-24 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 24 June 2004 02:02 pm, Will Oram wrote: On Jun 24, 2004, at 10:59 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Will Oram writes: mvmt1/mvmt1.ly:15:19: error: can't find file: `/defs.ly' \include /defs.ly That looks odd, you wouldn't have defs.ly in your root directory, right? Right.

Re: Output Combined Parts

2004-06-17 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 17 June 2004 12:25 am, Joshua Koo wrote: Hi I put each of my instrument notes is inside a separate file, so lets say all cellos notes are inside cello.ly and violin notes are inside violin.ly In each of these files, they have a \score{} so I can print out the indiviual parts.

Re: can MIDI support voice?

2004-06-01 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 31 May 2004 08:51 pm, Graham Percival wrote: On Fri, 28 May 2004 08:48:48 -0400 Ting Gan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I came upone a problem with MIDI files. I have a piece of music which has a voice and a piano part. The MIDI file which lilypond file output to does not play

Re: Double fingering instructions

2004-06-01 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 07:57 am, Hendrik wrote: Hello, Apart from that I don't get my file running yet, I'd like to put double fingering instructions, as needed for the piece of guitar-music I'm trying to typeset. In the part fingering in the manual, I found b-2 to be a b with a 2

Re: \bar :|: inconsistency?

2004-05-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 13 May 2004 04:37, Erik Sandberg wrote: On Tuesday 11 May 2004 20.40, Steve Shorter wrote: Howdy! I was wondering about the apparent difference in repeat bars Seems \bar |: and \bar :| et al have a thick bar, followed by a thin bar followed

Re: bar collisions and triplets

2004-05-04 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 03 May 2004 15:33, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Steve Shorter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 10:50:33AM -0400, Steve Shorter wrote: Howdy! I have some triplets at the end of the bar and the bracket/brace outlining the triplet collides with the barline. How can

Re: [OT]: need logo for lilypond shirt!

2004-05-04 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 14:18, Pedro Kroger wrote: Hi people, In June I'll be presenting an one hour lecture on free software for music and Linux as a platform for music and audio at the 5th International Free Software Forum at Brazil (http://www.softwarelivre.org/forum2004/). Of course I'll

Re: repeated lyrics in 2.2.0

2004-04-28 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 28 April 2004 12:22, Jos Smeets wrote: In Lilypond 2.0.1 I could handle repeated lyrics as follows: \repeat fold 2 { } \alternative {{Bla bla }{ Pom pom }} After I upgraded to 2.2.0 this stopped working. I cannot find a way to handle this now. Can anyone help? Looking

Re: Is method of using LilyPond compatible with creativity?

2004-04-16 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 16 April 2004 10:02, Michael Edwards wrote: I mentioned about a week ago that I was considering whether I might start using LilyPond. I will need to get a new hard disk before I have enough room to use LilyPond, so perhaps there is not much point in asking any detailed

Re: Newbie: Getting started with lilypond-book

2004-04-14 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
%{ On Tuesday 13 April 2004 11:33, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: Ben, thank for letting me know about the attachments not being allowed. I didn't know that. I thought I was making it easier for anyone to help me. Not a limitation on text files, just on images and such. You could even make your

Re: rest collision

2004-04-14 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 13 April 2004 20:12, Roland Goretzki wrote: Hello list, hello Stan, You wrote: In the attached example, eighth rests collide with note stems. I'd appreciate suggestions about how to make it look better. The code for the measure(s) is bf bf'8 | {d8\rest d f[ c8\rest

Re: Rasgueado notation in LilyPond?

2004-04-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 13 April 2004 01:21, Gunther Strube wrote: Hi, What is the difference with an arpeggio with a direction? Have you seen: http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.2/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypon d/Arpeggio.html I cannot find Rasgueado in the music glossary. That's it! I

sly and writesly

2004-04-10 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
At long last writesly, a python script that takes parts off the disk and builds a sly file with them, using the header as a guide. In other words, it reverses what sly does. Sly has been simplified. The only special thing you put in your notes data is the field separator, which sly gets from

Re: Guitar String Numbers

2004-03-31 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 31 March 2004 07:58, Mats Bengtsson wrote: No! First of all, \center-align only works within a single markup and makes sure that if you have several lines in your markup, these will be aligned to each other. This works for some reason, with one line in the markup:

Re: Linebreaks in fragments Lily-book

2004-03-28 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Saturday 27 March 2004 13:25, Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote: I now have a 'copyright renewed 1943' edition which might fix some of the mistakes, but then I don't think it could be on mutopiaproject right? I don't think that is right. A copyright renewal was required after 28 years,

Re: Just a couple quick questions.

2004-03-24 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 11:54, Lyle Raymond wrote: On Wednesday 24 March 2004 9:36 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Now that I look more carefully at the output you sent earlier, it looks as if you try to set the header field 'pagenumber' in your file. Is that right? I just discovered that

Re: Lilypond not creating .pdf file

2004-03-22 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 22 March 2004 02:02, Lyle Raymond wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 9:51 am, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 03:21, Lyle Raymond wrote: I've discovered that while in one directory, lilypond file.ly automatically creates a pdf file; but while in another

Re: midiinstrument and clefs

2004-03-21 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 21 March 2004 02:25, David Bobroff wrote: Why does lilypond do small clefs in the middle of a line by default instead of regular? It is common engraving practice. As to why it is common practice I can only speculate that a full sized clef would appear bulky and out of place, or

bugs.ly

2004-03-21 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
= Warrior's Wedding Song composer = David Raleigh Arnold piece = David Raleigh Arnold poet = \it \Large adagio tagline = \center \copyright2004 David Raleigh Arnold } \include english.ly % melody = \notes { \time 3/4 \key e \major \partial 4 b4 e'2 fs'4 af'2 e'4 r2 \bar |. } harmony = \notes

Re: Lilypond not creating .pdf file

2004-03-20 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Saturday 20 March 2004 03:21, Lyle Raymond wrote: I've discovered that while in one directory, lilypond file.ly automatically creates a pdf file; but while in another, it only creates a latex file and doesn't go any further. What's happening? I'm using version 2.1.0, by the way. This is

midiinstrument and clefs

2004-03-20 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Is there any way to get Staff.midiInstrument to work? \context Staff = tone { \set Staff.instrument = #vocal \set Staff.midiInstrument = #voice oohs \melody { Lilypond 1.32 doesn't complain, but neither does it deliver. I've tried a lot of things. \property is long gone, apparently.

Re: EasyNotation in german editing language.ly

2004-03-18 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 18:55, Roland Goretzki wrote: Hi, I have the line \include deutsch.ly in my .ly-files, but if I use the \translator { \EasyNotation } then the result for the english note b, which in german is called h, is only the english B in the note. Perhaps it

Re: Nested slurs, was: Percussion

2004-03-17 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 08:38, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote: On Tuesday March 16 2004 10:45, Mats Bengtsson wrote: A single grace notes without a slur but with a slash is trivial to obtain, see http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2004-02/msg00122.htm

Re: number of chords

2004-03-15 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 15 March 2004 16:48, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Monday 15 March 2004 10:04, Tiffany Weisman wrote: I only meant the list as a starting point. I disagree that you shouldn't use redundant notation. Cadd9 is different from Cadd2 or Csus2. As is C9sus4 and C11. A higher chord

Re: number of chords

2004-03-15 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 15 March 2004 10:04, Tiffany Weisman wrote: I only meant the list as a starting point. I disagree that you shouldn't use redundant notation. Cadd9 is different from Cadd2 or Csus2. As is C9sus4 and C11. A higher chord extension suggests a different way of voicing the chord. The 2

Re: ottava polyphony

2004-03-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 08 March 2004 05:27, Mats Bengtsson wrote: David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Thursday 04 March 2004 05:14, Mats Bengtsson wrote: The question is what is the correct typesetting practice. As a musician, how can I know if the ottava applies only to the upper voice or to the full stave

Re: question: volta + dynamics

2004-03-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 12 March 2004 10:20, Mats Bengtsson wrote: David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Friday 12 March 2004 01:48, Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote: On Wednesday March 10 2004 12:23, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2004 02:53, Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote

Re: question: volta + dynamics

2004-03-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 12 March 2004 23:57, Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote: On Friday March 12 2004 12:01, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Friday 12 March 2004 10:20, Mats Bengtsson wrote: David Raleigh Arnold wrote: [snip--difficult to tell what's off list now, with the delay] Mozart used fp a lot

Re: coding problem with triplets

2004-03-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 11 March 2004 10:37, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2004 01:58, chip wrote: I am trying to get a measure like this - 8thRest 8thNote 8thNote 8thNote 4Note triplet8thNotes using this code r8 a' csharp'' e'' = 2 beats csharp''4 = 1 beat \times 4/3 {gsharp

Re: Publishing using Lilypond ....

2004-03-13 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Saturday 06 March 2004 17:40, Hans Forbrich wrote: I am have (re)started discussions with a local professional print/binding shop around professionally publishing some Lilypond-based work. In part, I'd like to set something up around Tex-based small-run business here (here being St. Albert

Re: question: volta + dynamics

2004-03-12 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 11 March 2004 23:46, Paul Scott wrote: David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2004 02:53, Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote: Is there a preferred way to have two different dynamics in a section of music to indicate that it is played at one level the first time

Re: question: volta + dynamics

2004-03-12 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 12 March 2004 01:48, Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote: On Wednesday March 10 2004 12:23, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2004 02:53, Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote: Is there a preferred way to have two different dynamics in a section of music to indicate

Re: measure numbers and line breaks

2004-03-12 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Friday 12 March 2004 05:18, Mats Bengtsson wrote: David Raleigh Arnold wrote: When numbering measures at the beginning of a line, if there be a line break in the middle of the measure, the number should be that of the *following* measure, not the current measure which is broken. I

Re: question: volta + dynamics

2004-03-11 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Saturday 06 March 2004 02:53, Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote: Is there a preferred way to have two different dynamics in a section of music to indicate that it is played at one level the first time and at the next level the second time? fp is common, and I've seen pf. I've never seen

Re: coding problem with triplets

2004-03-11 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 07 March 2004 01:58, chip wrote: I am trying to get a measure like this - 8thRest 8thNote 8thNote 8thNote 4Note triplet8thNotes using this code r8 a' csharp'' e'' = 2 beats csharp''4 = 1 beat \times 4/3 {gsharp''8[ gsharp'' gsharp'']} = (4 x 1.5/3) = 2 beats 5 beats? Try

Re: Content-type restrictions

2004-03-11 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 09 March 2004 08:25, Mats Bengtsson wrote: The only real inconvenience is the inability to send .pngs, since .ly files can simply be the text or part of it. For those who don't have a website, Would it be possible to provide a separate subdirectory somewhere so .pngs could be

Re: Content-type restrictions

2004-03-09 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 10:52, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Hi, Yesterday we tried having the mailing list software (Mailman 2.1.2) reject mail with application/octet-stream attachments. The Mailman user interface is a bit vague; it turned out that the virus mails still get to the mailing

Re: ess-tset again

2004-03-07 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 02:34, Thomas Scharkowski wrote: According to Duden Rechtschreibung 1961 an 1998): hei - ßen Thomas Bochum Germany På tirsdag, 2. mars 2004, kl. 11:07, skrev David Bobroff: In this instance the word is heissen (with ess-tset, of course). Should it be heiss

Re: globals and grace notes and sly.py is up

2004-03-02 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 01 March 2004 18:52, Paul Scott wrote: David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Sunday 29 February 2004 23:06, Paul Scott wrote: Using globals helps me save a lot of typing and makes time and measure number mistakes far less likely. Is there a way I can eliminate the extraneous 4/4 and extra

Re: emacs, umlauts, tabbing, ess-tset etc.

2004-03-02 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 08:36, David Bobroff wrote: It seems that for lyrics it is optional to escape the . It appears to work either way. The problem with *not* escaping them is that the auto indent gets confused for anything input after that point in the *.ly file. Nor does

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